If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

I am an addictive personality.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.